Lynse Cooper (b. 1993) is an artist working primarily in photography. Her work explores themes of home, family, comfort, memory, and isolation. Her photos are an investigation of Black American domestic life, aesthetics, archives, and death culture.
Cooper is currently an MFA candidate at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She is based in Northern California.
contact: cooperlynse [at] gmail [dot] com
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
MFA Fine Arts, 2022-2024
School for Poetic Computation via Zoom
Dark Matters: On Race, Capitalism, and the Whiteness of the Screen, March 2022 to May 2022
Los Rios Community College District, Sacramento, CA
Varied coursework in Gerontology, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Arts, 2019-2022
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
BA Psychology with minors in Visual Arts & Neuroscience, 2012-2016
Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
September - October 2023
Introductions 2023, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
August - September 2023
Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
May - June 2023
#NewVisions2023: A Student Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, Online
March 2023
HYPHEN, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
May 2018
Sr. All-Star Show, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
May 2016
Junior Group Show, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Spring 2015
Junior Artist Book Group Show, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Fall 2014
2023 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards, San Francisco Foundation
Cadogan Awardee, 2023
All-College Honors, California College of the Arts,
Grad Fine Arts, 2023
2022 Texas Photographic Society National Photography Award
Finalist-Special Merit, May 2022